Jul. 2, 2007 - Hong Kong
Number One Son just had a wonderful trip to Hong Kong! He had a bit of a stressful start to the trip, though - he forgot his passport and had to go back and get it and then dropped a ketchupy french fry on his shirt at the airport. Honorable Uncle was not happy  but it all eventually worked out!
Poor Number One Son said he felt like he kept making stupid mistakes no matter what he did and he felt pretty frustrated about it, but I told him that I believed the Lord was allowing him to be in the heat so that the refined gold would shine through. Number One said he has been praying and praying for the Lord to turn up the heat on our family there. I think he has! Please pray for grace under pressure. There is much I can not say, but I believe the Holy Spirit is active.
He was blessed to be there on the 10th anniversary of Britain's handing it over. They had the largest fireworks display in the history of the city! 30,000 shells, if you can believe it! They moored three big barges out in the channel and shot them from there. God graciously allowed Number One Son to watch it from a skywalk balcony on the 45th floor. "I have a hard time imagining anything more impressive. There was way more cordite than any display I've ever seen!"
The next morning, Number One Son got out to explore on his own. While walking in the Botanical Garden, he saw a beautiful golden lion tamarin and then a sign saying, "Please be quiet, baby ring tailed lemur born 6/11." He actually got to see the little thing with its mother - so cute!
He said the escalators are unbelievable. They have escalators that run up the mountain HongKong is built on. They all run down in the morning until 10 and then change and run up the rest of the day. He was walking slowly up waiting for the escalators to change, when he saw a Krispy Kreme! He had to go in: "They have all different flavors than we do. I had to take a video of the case! They did have cake doughnuts, chocolate with sprinkles, and crullers, but no raspberry or lemon. They had pistachio and green tea flavor doughnuts! I had to buy a green tea one. It looked like a glazed doughnut with the rim dipped in green frosting. The dough was green! And the frosting was green tea paste. Very odd."
Number One Son said he may have been on Hong Kong TV, he walked right by a news anchor giving a report on one of the many skywalks in Hong Kong. "Cool camera."
In the afternoon, Honorable Uncle gave him a choice of going to Kowloon for lunch and taking the Star Ferry back or going to Stanley for fish and chips and then Victoria Peak. Honorable Son chose Stanley, though it was a hard decision. "Stanley was very British Colonial and very green. The mountains come straight out of the sea in HongKong and it is very beautiful."
They ate fish and chips (British french fries) for lunch and Son was very surprised to find they ate them with malt vinegar. Good, though!
While they were walking through a crowd, Honorable Uncle says, "Quick, hand me that camera!" and took a picture of the back of a woman's head - she was wearing a cute headband that he thought the company may be able to develop. 
" We drove up to Victoria Peak in a taxi. We only had a few minutes to spend there overlooking Hong Kong, but it was spectacular!" Honorable Uncle said the view is even more incredible at night. "We took the funicular down from the peak and I took video until my battery died about halfway down. Honorable father will enjoy it!"
At the airport, Number One Son went to a bookstore where he bought a british digital filmmaking magazine for pros and amatuers, full of stuff he's been working on learning.
He also bought an awesome little book. He's been thinking about a story we read before he left about the Falkland Islands War since he was in a former British colony. The book is called Vulcan 607 - and he highly recommends it - fascinating.
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